Professor Robert Gleave

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Between 2004 and 2008, Rob Gleave was Executive Director of BRISMES, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. He continues to be Honorary Librarian of BIPS, the British Institute of Persian Studies. He has been visiting scholar/professor at St John’s College (Oxford), the University of Tehran, Meiji University (Tokyo), the University of Michigan and the University of Washington (Seattle). In October and November 2009, Rob Gleave was Visiting Scholar at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society, giving a series of 5 lectures on "Hermeneutics, Power and Authority: Studies in Sh'i' Muslim Law". See here and here for more details.